Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Intellectual Impostures - Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont

"A splendid book."
—Richard Dawkins

"The exposure of ignorance, pomposity and pseudo-science in this book are truly breathtaking."
—Sunday Telegraph

In Intellectual Imposteurs, Alan Sokal, the author of Beyond the Hoax,
and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in
postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious
invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more
insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose
Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set
theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of
non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear
that these virtuosi are babbling. Their discussion of epistemic relativism--roughly, the idea that
scientific and mathematical theories are mere "narrations" or social
constructions--is less convincing, however, in part because epistemic
relativism is not as intrinsically silly as, say, Regis Debray's
maunderings about Gödel, and in part because the authors' own grasp of
the philosophy of science frequently verges on the naive. Nevertheless,
Sokal and Bricmont are to be commended for their spirited resistance
to postmodernity's failure to appreciate science for what it is. Amazon

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